Biostatistics

Any piece of primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review. The kay advantage of a systematic review over the traditional narrative review is its ability to identify all the available eveidence in a systematic and replicable manner. This book will describe a) the kay steps to undertak... More

LaTex is a software system for typesetting documents. Because it is especially good for technical documents and is available for almost any computer system, LaTex has become a lingua franca of the scientific world. Researchers, educators, and students in universities, as well as scientists in indust... More

The process of discovery in science and technology may require investigation of a large number of features, such as factors, genes or molecules. In Screening, designed experiments and statistical analyses of the resulting data sets are used to identify efficiently the few features that determine key... More

This is an authorised reprint of a World Health Organization publication. This book gives an introduction to the basic principles and methods of epidemiology. It begins with causes of diseases and how they can be prevented by modification of environmental factors, which, in turn, can lead to promoti... More

Dynamical systems theory in mathematical biology has attracted much attention from many scientific directions. The purpose of this volume is to present and discuss the many rich properties of the dynamical systems that appear in life science and medicine. The main topics include cancer treatment, dy... More

This illustrated textbook for biologists provides a refreshingly clear and authoritative introduction to the key ideas of sampling, experimental design, and statistical analysis. The author presents statistical concepts through common sense, non-mathematical explanations and diagrams. These are foll... More

Integrates the latest theory, methodology and applications related to the design and analysis of repeated measurement. The text covers a broad range of topics, including the analysis of repeated measures design, general crossover designs, and linear and nonlinear regression models. It also contains ... More

The second edition of this highly successful, user-friendly book, continues to provide an excellent foundation in statistics for the uninitiated, making it ideal for both students and professionals in health care and medicine who may be either approaching the subject for the first time, or who want ... More

In this book, John Maynard Smith describes how the theory of natural selection has been confirmed, but at the same time transformed, by recent research, and in particular by the discovery of the laws of inheritance.All living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or ... More

Drug development is the process of finding and producing therapeutically useful pharmaceuticals, turning them into safe and effective medicine, and producing reliable information regarding the appropriate dosage and dosing intervals. With regulatory authorities demanding increasingly higher standard... More

Critically acclaimed and resoundingly popular in its first edition, Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the many developments and advances--particularly in software--made in the field over the last 10 years. Now, more than ever, it provides ... More

"SPSS Explained" provides students with all that they need to undertake statistical analysis using SPSS, guiding them from the basic rationale behind the statistics, through detailed explanations of the procedures, and finally to all aspects of the SPSS output. Uniquely, the explanation of the outpu... More